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I'm curious about the paintings above. The background topography in both paintins is not the topography of the area around Fort Cumberland. Ft. Cumberland was a small fort and the immediate surrounding area would not accomodate a large number of soldiers. The topography in these paintings looks like the WV mountains along Rt. 220 south of Cumberland about 9 miles near a little village called Pinto, MD. This area could accomodate a large encampment of troops with fresh water nearby in the Potomac river near the base of those mountains.